Good news from our team in Turkey ! Another slaughterhouse, this time for sheep, will stun most of the animals they slaughter prior to cutting their throat. Eyes on Animals taught the workers how to use and maintain a stunner and officially leased out one of our stunners for a period of 1 year. We will do a follow-up check in a few months and until then they will regularly … [Read more...] about Emir Adak Slaughterhouse and Sales in Istanbul will stun prior to slaughter
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Combating heat stress at Westfort pig slaughterhouse
A covered parking lot has been built at Westfort pig slaughterhouse so that trucks waiting in line to unload pigs can do so in the shade. This will help decrease the risk of heat stress for the animals stuck on board the waiting trucks. The covered parking lot can accommodate 3-4 trucks. Fans and water misters have been installed along the roof as well, to reduce the … [Read more...] about Combating heat stress at Westfort pig slaughterhouse
Another cattle slaughterhouse in Turkey (Aydin pasa Et) adopts stunning
Positive news from our team currently in Turkey ! Another Turkish cattle slaughterhouse agrees to stunning ! Today the EonA team visited Aydin paşa Et slaughterhouse. The purpose of our visit was to show them what a captive bolt pistol looks like, how it works, and its welfare advantages of rendering an animal insensitive to pain before cutting its throat. The chief of … [Read more...] about Another cattle slaughterhouse in Turkey (Aydin pasa Et) adopts stunning
Meeting with Religious Authority and Ministry of Agriculture in Goenen, Turkey about captive bolt stunning
Today the Eyes on Animals team in Turkey held two meetings. One with the highest Religious Authority from Dyanet office in Goenen and one with an official from the Goenen office of Ministry of Agriculture. The city of Goenen has a cattle and sheep slaughterhouse where many animals pass through, in the past also ones form Europe. Eyes on Animals has been there many times. … [Read more...] about Meeting with Religious Authority and Ministry of Agriculture in Goenen, Turkey about captive bolt stunning
Training and testing at large European pig slaughterhouse
On August 24th we had a brainstorm session with Dr. Temple Grandin and the CEO/COO of a large pig slaughterhouse in Europe. This was to look at how to continuously improve animal welfare at their plant. Today was our first day at the plant to observe their present status and make plans on improving their set-up where possible. We documented all potential stress areas in … [Read more...] about Training and testing at large European pig slaughterhouse
EonA brings more stunning equipment to Turkey and Ghana
Eyes on Animals has been busy this week in Turkey and helping WACPAW in Ghana. Asalet in Turkey just officially made a lease transfer of one of our captive bolt pistols to a (Halal) slaughterhouse in North-Eastern Turkey. Not all customers of this slaughterhouse want meat from animals stunned but more and more are open to it after Asalet explained how the captive bolt … [Read more...] about EonA brings more stunning equipment to Turkey and Ghana
EonA not yet welcome at VSS slaughterhouse to view slaughter
On 28 April, Eyes on Animals visited the VSS slaughterhouse in Elspeet where sheep, dairy goats and billy goats are slaughtered. We received a warm welcome from one of the employees. We talked about our work in Ghana, where we, among other things, improve goat welfare by introducing pre-slaughter stunning. Together with the employee we talked about restraining and stunning … [Read more...] about EonA not yet welcome at VSS slaughterhouse to view slaughter
Eyes on Animals follow-up visit to pig slaughterhouse Van Rooi, NL
EonA again visited the Van Rooi pig slaughterhouse in Helmond during the first tropical day of this year. We were welcomed to come in and were able to see their adjustments to counteract heat stress. Under their parking garage, the entire ground floor had been kept empty where the livestock trucks could wait. So there was shade everywhere. A large misting system was … [Read more...] about Eyes on Animals follow-up visit to pig slaughterhouse Van Rooi, NL
WILKI sends overview of the adjustments for better animal welfare
For some time now, Eyes on Animals has been working with poultry slaughterhouse Wilki: first to improve their crates, which initially had small doorways which sometimes broke, resulting in many injured birds. WILKI replaced them all with new and improved crates. Secondly, they agreed to work on implementing some of our ideas to reduce stress during … [Read more...] about WILKI sends overview of the adjustments for better animal welfare
Eyes on Animals consulted with pig slaughterhouse Westfort after undercover images
Today, after an intensive inspection of their entire slaughter process, we discussed a number of points that we believe could be improved on. These points include: reducing the noise in the slaughterhouse to which pigs are very sensitive, improvements with regard to moving the animals forward, loading density in the waiting pens, stunning and euthanizing of the … [Read more...] about Eyes on Animals consulted with pig slaughterhouse Westfort after undercover images
